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Supreme Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 1968 / Served to 1979

Thomas W. Pomeroy

Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Thomas W. Pomeroy was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 1968. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1908–2002
Tenure: 1968–1979 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1968	Supreme Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Education

Lafayette College
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Pomeroy authored 364 published opinions for the court (1969–1979), plus 201 dissents and 157 concurrences. Most cited: Commonwealth v. Hubbard (854 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 722 of these were attributed to Pomeroy by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1977	Commonwealth v. Hubbard†	372 A.2d 687	854
1974	Dilliplaine v. Lehigh Valley Trust Co.· Concurrence†	457 Pa. 255	817
1974	Commonwealth v. Clair· Dissent†	458 Pa. 418	732
1978	Commonwealth v. Story· Concurrence†	383 A.2d 155	730
1978	Hamil v. Bashline†	392 A.2d 1280	562
1974	Geary v. United States Steel Corp.†	456 Pa. 171	514
1975	Berkebile v. Brantly Helicopter Corp.· Concurrence†	337 A.2d 893	412
1978	Mayle v. Pennsylvania Department of Highways· Dissent†	388 A.2d 709	385
1973	Commonwealth v. Campana· Dissent†	452 Pa. 233	340
1971	Incollingo v. Ewing†	444 Pa. 299	339
1974	Commonwealth v. Monumental Properties, Inc.· Dissent†	329 A.2d 812	323
1971	Incollingo v. EWING†	444 Pa. 263	315
1978	Pugar v. Greco†	394 A.2d 542	308
1974	Commonwealth v. Campana· Dissent†	455 Pa. 622	306
1977	Brakeman v. Potomac Insurance Co.· Dissent†	371 A.2d 193	300

Showing the 15 most-cited of 722 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Thomas W. Pomeroy on?: Thomas W. Pomeroy was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Sources

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11 years on the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).